Mission Mission

Eater SF reports:

On Sunday night the Ken Ken Ramen pop-up served its last noodle at The Corner. Meanwhile, the managers gave away free ice cream to diners as they moved everything out of the basement during service. There was a flood, they said, so they had to leave. But The Corner is in deeper water than that. SFoodie spoke with chef Joanna Karlinsky of the Sweet Joe’s pop-up, who said the Health Dept. recently inspected the space, finding it was only set up to be a wine bar, not a full service kitchen. Naturally, they had to cease operations.

Read on for info on the fates of all the pop-ups this news affects.

[Photo by Google Maps]

Here’s the Japanther hit everybody loves to sing along to best. Practice up:

[via Carlos]

Even though our vaunted Indian summer hasn’t been as spectacular as in years past, that hasn’t stopped everyone from taking their tops off.  Take these ambitious folks for instance, who optimistically decided it was time for a DIY convertible and let the sparks fly on a recent sunny Sunday afternoon.  Xzibit would be proud.

Sometimes at Oldies Night we hear a song so freaky or nasty we have to run up on Primo and ask WHAT WUZ THATT?? Here are a couple of those, spun this past Friday:

And if you like all that, keep in mind there’s yet another extra special soul party this coming Friday night. It’s a mayoral thing again:

AVALOS HAS SOUL
… a fundraiser for John Avalos for Mayor of San Francisco

Friday, October 14th
9pm-Midnight
Dance Mission Theatre
3316 24th Street, San Francisco
$10* Suggested Donation — No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds

Featuring DJ Sets From
PRIMO (OLDIES NIGHT)
PHENGREN OSWALD (SATURDAY NIGHT SOUL PARTY)
BROWN AMY (HARD FRENCH)
NICK WATERHOUSE (LOST AND FOUND)
LUCKY (SATURDAY NIGHT SOUL PARTY)
CARNITA (HARD FRENCH)
SPECIAL LORD B (SATURDAY NIGHT SOUL PARTY)
DX THE FUNKY GRANPAW (TEENAGE DANCE CRAZE)

Also featuring a free Ice Cream SOULcial presented by THREE TWINS ORGANIC ICE CREAM

Quite a lineup! RSVP and invite your friends.

Get there early!

Reader Kristin was confounded: “I’ve had all kinds of fun with Google Translate and tuna doesn’t appear to mean anything in Spanish– certainly not prickly pear.”

Well, Kristin, Wikipedia explains:

Most culinary uses of the term “prickly pear” refer to this species. Prickly pears are also known as “tuna”, “nopal” or nopales, from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit; or paddle cactus. This and similar species are native to Mexico. [link.]

So, yeah, it’s just what’s it’s called. Not as funny as that whole smoked lion thing.